MAKER: 
Last Updated
8-19-2008
Overview
MAKER is a portable and easily configurable genome annotation pipeline. It's purpose is to allow smaller eukaryotic genome projects to independently annotate their genomes and to create genome databases. MAKER identifies repeats, aligns ESTs and proteins to a genome, produces ab-initio gene predictions and automatically synthesizes these data into gene annotations having evidence-based quality values. MAKER is also easily trainable: outputs of preliminary runs can be used to automatically retrain its gene prediction algorithm, producing higher quality gene-models on seusequent runs. MAKER's inputs are minimal and its ouputs can be directly loaded into a GMOD database. They can also be viewed in the Apollo genome browser; this feature of MAKER provides an easy means to annotate, view and edit individual contigs and BACs without the overhead of a database. MAKER should prove especially useful for emerging model organism projects with minimal bioinformatics expertise and computer resources.
Liscensing
MAKER is liscensed under under the Artistic Liscense 2.0 for academic research use. For information regarding commercial use of MAKER please contact the author via the mailing list.
Download
To download the current MAKER distribution for academic research use we ask you to register with a valid e-mail address. We are asking for this information so that we can keep track of new users for generating usage reports for funding agencies. Your e-mail address will be used for creating an anonymous aggregate count of MAKER users and will not by used for any other purposes. Your e-mail will not be shared or made public in any way and we won't even subscribe you to our mailing list - you can do that seperately.
Register to download MAKER for academic research use
Documentation
Documentation for the MAKER project can be found included in the MAKER distribution, and is included on this website as well with links below. There is also a Trac based wiki where users can read and contribute documentation.
Read and edit community supported documentation at the MAKER Trac Wiki
Browser MAKER's source code at the MAKER Trac Browser
Support
Support for MAKER is provided by a mailing list. And a Trac based wiki, bug tracker and code browser. Please join the mailing list, visit the Trac site and contribute to the effort.
Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the maker-devel mailing list.
Send mail to the maker-devel list (members only).
The maker-devel list is also archived on Google Groups which has better archive searching capabilities.
Create a new ticket for a bug or feature request at the MAKER Trac website